Oliver Cromwell Quotes

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

War is the science of destruction.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

... merely another weapon.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

Wars ruin armies.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is the trade of Kings.

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.